Alright you can stop spamming my twitter account now with your not so very subtle promotional messages (seriously, what an odd and annoying thing to do), I watched the movie. So how is it? Far from impressive really.
I actually really like sports movies, no matter what type of sports they involve. They are always very uplifting and inspiring to watch, as well as often engaging. Just not this movie as well though. When thinking back about it, there isn't even an awful lot of running in this movie, caused by the many, many different other distractions that are in the movie.
It isn't just only a problem that the story is filled with many needless distractions in it but it's maybe even a bigger problem that all of these distractions are extremely formulaic ones and turn the movie in a far too predictable and standard one. It features a lot of dramatic clichés in it, such as an unstable home situation, a reluctant coach and of course a love story. Most of the side-plots feel absolutely pointless and are only there to add to the drama. The movie seems to think that the more drama is featured in it, the more engaging and effective it becomes to watch as well. But less is definitely more at times and sometimes it's simply more important to handle drama and certain emotions in a subtle kind of way, instead of constantly being into your face with all of it. Save that for soap operas and made for TV melodramas instead!

It's also annoying how the movie doesn't wrap all of its different story lines up. The ending is quite abrupt and it leaves a ton of questions. The overall movie feels very lazy, not just because it isn't always explaining everything or wrapping every single plot line up but also because the story relies on just clichés and isn't ever really trying to do anything new or surprising with either its story or characters.
Not the worst movie you can run into (yes, that was a pun) but not exactly a great, uplifting or very engaging movie either.
5/10
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